Healing Pain: The Mind Body Connection || Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

Literally over 90 people found a reduction in symptoms simply by knowing that there was a power in their thoughts and behavior patterns that was contributing to their

pain

. This is something that most people don't know and that they do know, and I would say that most people do it, it's called squeezing, it's called squeezing the

body

around the constriction, it contracts, it contracts, the muscles contract. muscles, it stays like the episode, it stays, but we don't even know we're doing it if you've ever done a

body

scan. and they've done, you know, a meditation body scan and they talk to you about relaxing, you know, like the wrinkles on your forehead and the first thing you think is I'm not getting my forehead wrinkled and meanwhile you focus on it and You realize that, oh, I've been holding, you can do that with every part of your body and the muscles in your back and the muscles in your shoulders and the muscles in your buttocks can be the place that we hold ourselves as humans that They have to stay upright, which is actually not natural for our real physiology.

For humans who have to stay upright, those muscles are maintained over time, over the years, you don't even realize that you're building up tension in those places, so once you read. the type of writing that dr. sarno the type of research that dr. mange the type of research that many doctors who have followed call it

mind

-body syndrome they call it transient myostatic it has several names is the tension that builds up and leads to this type of back

pain

and often years and years and years of fall down the rabbit hole because no one can figure out what's wrong with their back and often people have surgery and the pain doesn't go away and they can't explain it. and what Dr.

Sarno and his well-known disciples have discovered is that people who are prone to that type of back pain are often prone to having the pain volume turned up throughout the body for a percentage of people of this type. Volume increases throughout our body and is the culprit of chronic pain. Much evidence has emerged recently of this overdoing personality type. This is something from Dr. Sarno, it's not recent, I mean, that's the popularization of Dr. Sarno. It's the type of personality that Dr. sarno found overwhelmingly he was experiencing this type of tension in this type of restraint, you know, my father was the type of person, bless his memory, who had back pains the entire time the man lived on a heating pad, basically when I was at home and it was almost always work stress, almost always work stress, meaning if I had a fight with the principal, I was a teacher, a public school teacher, you know, I had a fight with the principal, this administration or the union, I would have to leave it.

I couldn't walk for days and what Eliza experienced just by reading one chapter was that when you learn that there is a component of yourself that is contributing, not to causing, but to that cycle of tension and pain, you simply breathe into what that information contains. for most people. you can start to see some relief from that pain, it's really fascinating and it's one of those things that, if it continues to be put into practice, can absolutely revolutionize medicine because millions and millions of people undergo surgeries that cost us, you know , the public, a huge amount of money, the recovery is brutal, often produces many side effects when my father had back surgery, they cut a nerve that never fully healed in his groin, that's how those things happen.

Dr. Sarno really had this. vision of what our understanding of pain could be and there are tens of millions of people right now in the US alone who are experiencing chronic pain, absolute pain, the number of people, especially when you're over 30 and everyone they think, oh, you're 30. you're 40. that's what life is, that's not what life is, no, there are people literally walking around with herniated discs who don't report any pain and there are many reasons why our understanding mental well-being and how we actually behave in this case impact I mean this is

mind

perfect bodies this is mind-body syndrome howard schuberner is someone else will put his link um also unlearn your pain is the book that I used as my workbook it's a really great workbook um that You can go through um if you're experiencing that kind of pain.

Anyway, we wish Eliza the best on her journey toward continuing her

healing

.